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Last updated in 2004? Does this still work. Haven't there been a multitude of changes in video and computer technologies in the last 7 years? Does this run on Windows 7 64 bit computers?
It still works and they keep it around because I presume people still use it. Plus it's free. I haven't tried it on Windows 7 64-bit yet but it might work.
There are quite a few converters around that just give you a packaged, preset output. They are to me the wonderbread of the converter world, assuming the user is indifferent enough always to be satisfied with whatever the output happens to be. TMPGEnc allows all sorts of parameters to be adjusted during conversion, for example sound levels, forcing a sound track when the original doesn't have one (makes DVD assembly easier), color saturation, hue, gamma, cropping, source clipping, changing these for each file in a batch conversion, and so forth. I have had a hard time finding anything else that can do all of that as easily.
There are annoying characteristics as well, mostly interface annoyances (always defaulting to a lame list of extensions that are about irrelevant in the open file dialog, being extremely balky when trying to get it to use ffdshow, other things. But if you can get everything working it does well.
Most any of these converters are making use of system level codecs and essentially supplying an interface for them. The presumption that interface details need updating every few years (assuming the initial ones are well thought out) just makes you fodder for some operating system providers' need to sell you new crap every few years, no matter how lame it might be. The media "technologies" are contained in the codecs that are external to the converter and I suspect have much more to do with getting around or establishing this or that patent claim or with forcing you to use a particular provider's product than with improvements in quality. Compression is an old and well developed technology that changes rather slowly at this point. Don't let yourself be a dupe for the advertising department drones.
I have bought a new Imac with Core i7 sandy bridge which has AMD 6970M graphic processor. I have not been able to detect or activate Intel SDK Hardware encoding for H.264.
At this point I am not clear if only grahic chips produced by Intel can utilize this feature.
According to intel forums:
The hardware implementation is installed by the graphics driver and should be under \program files\Common\Intel\MediaSDK\s1\2.0 to ensure the hardware implementation libraries are on your system . libmfxhw32-s1.dll is the Sandy Bridge hardware implementation library.
Also even if the above dll is present the following can prevent the dll from being accessed:
Yes, libmfxhw32-s1.dll is the Sandy Bridge hardware implementation library. If the file is present and can’t be loaded, then there could be a few things that can be going on.
- There’s a discrete card in your system that’s set as the primary video card. This will turn off QSV, and prevent the HW DLL from loading
- The registry values are incorrect which prevents the MSDK dispatcher from finding libmfxhw32-s1.dll
I would assume that only Intel graphics chips can use Quick Sync. How does an i7 have an AMD graphics processor anyway?
I myself cannot use the Intel SDK hardware encoder because I only have discrete graphics on my machine. Kind of annoying that I'd have to buy a new motherboard just to try this thing out.
Just took a look at the imac specs. I see what you're talking about now with the i7 and AMD processors. I think you won't be able to use Intel Hardware encoder since the iMac is using the AMD/Radeon processor to display video; it would need to use the i7's GPU.
Well I have found the solution which is not yet available. This should work for anyone with discrete video card. I am going to post this on its own thread
Hi
Hope someone can help here with this error 'There is no usable writing drive installed'
I have a SATA Atapi iHAS124 B DVD Recorder that works fine with other DVD writing S/W.
John
It depends on your output format. Certain output formats have the option to convert the keyframes into chapters. MKV and MPEG for mobile device formats have this option in the "Other" tab. There might be other formats that have this option, but I haven't checked them all.
My original video file that I used for my most recent project is an AVI file with 3 audio tracks(Italian,English and German).
I got the authoring for it done so it was all ready to burn to a DVDR,but when I played it back,the only audio track is Italian.
What..??
I am going to have to do it all over now,but how can I be sure that this time,the English audio is included?
Hi. I'm trying to convert an avi to mpeg using mastering works but it won;t recognise the audio, which is a channel ac-3 stream. I presume the format simply isn't supported so i'm wondering is there a workaround or something i can do to change the audio so MW will recognise it. Thanks.
- started i new project with a clip
- then edited it
- then i used some filters
- then clicked on "timline" an choosed my clip for the new timeline
- now i'm in the clip-timeline-editing-mode
- then i added some layer with mosaics
- then i switched to 'format' and choosed my format
-> finally switched to 'encode' and 'start'
Problem: every layer with the mosaics and every change in the timeline-editing-mode were ignored
Is there is hidden 'apply to movie'-button or something.
> Also, is this a legit version of the software or a crack? In the past, there have been bugs and issues that only occur in cracked versions.
Ah, ok. This is a cracked version. I bought TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress and other Software from Pegasys in the past -- just wanted to know if it's worth it to buy or not.
Well I don't think a cracked version will give you an accurate view of the product. Try the trial version; I'm pretty sure you won't have the same issue.
Should work; I'm using a GTX 460.
The Cuda functions should help speed if you add a lot of filters to your video. You can also use it to encode H.264 but it may or may not be faster--depends on how fast your CPU is.
Is it possible to encode 1080i video in VC-1 elementary stream using TVMW5 ?
I understand selecting "Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile" produces VC-1 video (and allows for interlaced output), but the output container is always .wmv, with or without audio.
My authoring program (Sonic DVD it) expects .vc1 as (ES) as file format for VC-1 video (SMPTE VC-1 (elementary streams only): AP@L3 and AP@L2 ).
Will simply renaming the xxx.wmv file produced by TVWM5 to XXX.vc1 do the trick ?
Or is a true VC-1 elementary stream a different animal ?
BTW, I noticed that although Microsoft Expression encoder is installed on my computer, TVMW5 only uses the "old" VC-1 implementation, i.e. "WMV9 Advanced Profile".
There is a difference in the produced output:
With Microsoft Expression Encoder, MediaInfo reports:
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L2
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Description of the codec : VC-1 - VC-1 Advanced Profile
and with TVMW5:
Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L2
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile
But does that have an impact on the Blu-ray compliance of the produced video stream ?
Impossible with any sofware....You can put your vc1 elementary stream into mkv using graph edit firt with matroska muxer filter or new VLC video player can put it into ps stream using convert option and without any encoding, like direct stream. That's works very well.
Cheers.